purplebogmonste
Regular Member
Hi,
I bought a 'new' HDD of eBay. I had my doubts to be honest but gave it a try. Using CrystalDiskInfo I see it has been started 620 times and has 1300 hours of use on it. Why do people on eBay try and pull these stunts? Surely they know that they will need to refund the buyer including postage and will get bad feedback. Maybe they just expect buyers to be gullible - and maybe I was? Will fork out full price for one from a mainstream store me thinks. Rant over.
C.
EDIT: I did check the drive that it is to replace which has about 1300 days on it rather than the 55 of the eBay drive. It has not completely failed yet but has SMART errors and is on the way out. Still there are 4 such drives in my NAS and only one is going bad - that is quite respectable for 7200RPM desktop drives I think. They are Seagate and I never really liked Seagate but I can't complain about these.
I bought a 'new' HDD of eBay. I had my doubts to be honest but gave it a try. Using CrystalDiskInfo I see it has been started 620 times and has 1300 hours of use on it. Why do people on eBay try and pull these stunts? Surely they know that they will need to refund the buyer including postage and will get bad feedback. Maybe they just expect buyers to be gullible - and maybe I was? Will fork out full price for one from a mainstream store me thinks. Rant over.
C.
EDIT: I did check the drive that it is to replace which has about 1300 days on it rather than the 55 of the eBay drive. It has not completely failed yet but has SMART errors and is on the way out. Still there are 4 such drives in my NAS and only one is going bad - that is quite respectable for 7200RPM desktop drives I think. They are Seagate and I never really liked Seagate but I can't complain about these.
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